Sails Collection (page 11)

Moulin Rouge nightclub and revue in Paris
A superb pin-sharp photographic postcard of The Moulin Rouge nightclub and revue in Paris, France, early 20th century. Date: circa 1905

Man with Game Cocks - Stone Sails - Guadalupe, Mexico
Inset photograph of a man carrying Game Cocks and the Stone Sails Monument (in the grounds of the Basilica de Santa Maria de Guadalupe) - Guadalupe, Mexico. Date: circa 1910s

Hong Kong, China - City of Victoria, the Peak and Junks
Hong Kong, China - City of Victoria, the Peak and Chinese Junks - view from the Harbour Date: circa 1910s

Advertisement for a Quack Remedy - Japanese Junk - Sydney
Advertisement for a Quack Remedy on the sails of a Japanese Junk - Sydney Harbour, Australia. Dr. Sheldons New Discovery for Coughs, Colds and Consumption. Date: circa 1910s

France - Le Havre - Return of a fishing boat
France - Le Havre - Return of a lugger fishing boat into harbour on a stiff breeze. Date: circa 1910s

Cowes Club Cup Yacht Race - Celebrated Yacht America
The yacht America which wins the sailing match at Cowes for the Club Cup : the race will hereinafter be known as the Americas Cup race. Date: circa 1905

Cancale, Brittany, France - The Oyster Beds
The departure of the Fishing Fleet from Cancale, a commune in the Ille-et-Vilaine department in Brittany in northwestern France. Date: circa 1906

The Ant Windmill at Ludham, Norfolk Broads. Date: circa 1950s

South Marsh Mill, Arundel, West Sussex
South Marsh Mill on River Arun at Arundel, West Sussex - emerging from a misty gloom... Now converted into a house and (sadly) bereft of its magnificent sails Date: circa 1920

Sand Sailing - Hardelot-Plage (Pas de Calais)
Sand Sailing - Hardelot-Plage (Pas-de-Calais). Date: circa 1910s

Lacey Green Windmill - a Smock Mill in Buckinghamshire
Windmill at Lacey Green (a village connected to Loosley Row), Buckinghamshire - the oldest surviving smock mill in England

Arab Dhow in St Georges Bay, Malta - WWII
Arab Dhow in St Georges Bay, Malta. Photograph taken by Colonel David Sutherland of SBS and SAS, was part of a 12-man Special Boat Service unit which made a daring raid on the occupied Greek island

Sails drying - Arab Dhows in the harbour at Beirut, Lebanon
Sail drying - Arab Dhows in the harbour at Beirut, Lebanon. Photograph taken by Colonel David Sutherland of SBS and SAS, was part of a 12-man Special Boat Service unit which made a daring raid

Fishing boats - Russian Baltic Sea Coast Date: circa 1910s

Little boy in his sailor suit with his toy boat
Rather chubby little boy with blonde curls in his sailor suit poses for a studio photographic portrait with his rather fantastic (and sizeable) toy sailing boat. Date: circa 1903

A Burmese Paddy Boat - moored on the Irrawaddy River, Burma (now Myanmar). These boats were used to transport rice downriver - the main export crop of Burma. Date: 1895

Christmas card in the shape of a pipe with seascape
Christmas card in the shape of a pipe decorated with a seascape. circa 1890s

Christmas card in the shape of a sailing boat, with seascape and verse. Date: circa 1890s

Lady Teignmouth and her party, by Hubert Cornish
Lady Teignmouth and her party on the Great Coolea Mullah in the Sunderbans, by Hubert Cornish (1757-1832). The boat in the foreground contained a kitchen

View of St Petersburgh, by Mornay
View of the Centre of the Great Bridge of the Neva, and of St Petersburgh, a hand-coloured aquatint by Clark and Dubourgh after Mornay, published by Edward Orme, 1815. Date: 1815

An English Man o War, by John Thomas Serres
An English Man o War at Anchor in Naples Harbour, by John Thomas Serres (1759-1825). Date: 1823

Seascape. 1868. Oil on canvas. SPAIN. Valencia. San Pio V Fine Arts Museum

Spanish galleons and vessels (17th c. ). Engraving
Spanish galleons and vessels (17th c.). Engraving. SPAIN. Barcelona. Sant Jordi Catalan Royal Academy of Fine Arts

Hundred Years War. English troops boarding. ITALY. Turin. National Library of the Turin University

Ex voto of sailor Joseph Costa de Vilasa. Painting. SPAIN. Barcelona. Barcelona Maritime Museum

view of town and pagodas - Moulmein
View of town and pagodas - Moulmein - We remain aboard as ferry leaves for return to Moulmein. Sails, gulls flying up to take tea basket left-overs from our hands

Twante Canal - Rangoon

Adoniram Byfield
ADONIRAM BYFIELD - Puritan churchman, active in church affairs, depicted with a windmill on his head whose sails (Lust, Pryde &c) are being turned by the Devil. Date: ? - 1660

Early balloon design, described as an aerostatic globe, with equipment to travel in the air by wind. A) The Vessel. B) Sails that are used according to the wind

Blanchard balloon ascent, Rouen, France
Third balloon ascent of Jean-Pierre Blanchard, with Mr Boby, from the old barracks at Rouen. They later descended on the Plaine de Puissanval. 18 July 1784

Flying Globe and Air Balloon
Two fanciful technical drawings. Above is a Globe Volant (Flying Globe) in which Giroud de Villette and M Rozier passed over Paris on 19 October 1783

People and animals with a balloon
Fanciful design showing crowds of people and animals watching the ascent of an idealised balloon (complete with what appears to be a key to wind it up)

Returning sails at Takanawa. Print shows sailboats, some anchored and some under sail. Date between 1844 and 1848

Returning sails from distant shores. Print shows a cluster of thatch-roofed and more substantial buildings in a coastal village, sailboats laden with cargo approaching shore

Humorous pictures showing damaged Chinese battleships receiv

Returning sails at Yabase. Print shows a bird s-eye view of a village and coastline with the sails of returning ships visible through the clouds. Date between 1804 and 1810

Returning sails at Gyotoku

Tourism poster - Holland, featuring a classic Dutch scene of canal and windmills, framed by one of the cells of a windmills sails. circa 1960

The Mill at West Blatchington, near Brighton, East Sussex
A fine photographic Judges postcard showing the Mill at West Blatchington, near Brighton, East Sussex. The windmill is a " smock" windmill

Proposed design for balloon utilizing sails for propulsion, Paris, 1783. Design drawing shows two men in basket steering balloon by manipulation of a sail

Yachting at Cannes by Blam
A carefree group enjoy an exhilarating trip on a yacht off the French coast at Cannes during the 1920s. Date: 1926

Sea Scouts at sailing regatta, Lower Thames
Sea Scouts taking part in a sailing regatta on the Lower Thames, in Sea Scout Class fibre glass Coypu dinghies. 19 June 1963

Honourable Artillery Company lifeboat, Walton, Essex
The first National Lifeboat Institution lifeboat at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, donated by and named after The Honourable Artillery Company whose Drama Club sponsored it, was launched in 1884

Boy Scouts in Lifeboat Day parade, Walton-on-the-Naze
Some of the first Boy Scouts in the UK taking part in the Annual Lifeboat Day parade through the seaside town of Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex. circa 1910

Sea Scouts rowing a whaler along a stretch of water. circa 1960s

The SS Austral, a passenger vessel which took part in the early transportation by sea of refrigerated meat between Australia and Europe

Italian Lakes - Commercial Craft (5 / 7)
Lake Garda (Italian - Lago di Garda or Benaco) - the largest lake in Italy. A two-masted sailing barge (barque) moored up at a harbour at Riva to receive a cargo of sacks of grain. Date: circa 1910s

Italian Lakes - Commercial Craft (2 / 7)
View toward the shore of Lake Como and the distant houses of Menaggio. A heavily-laden sailing barge crosses the still waters of the Northern Italian Alpine lake. Date: circa 1910s

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